Tommy Attwood is a writer, illustrator, and cartoonist from Los Angeles. He earned his BS from NYU and his MFA in Illustration and Visual Culture from Washington University in St. Louis. At WashU, he received the Sam Fox Ambassador Fellowship and the Walt Reed Award for Excellence in Writing on Visual Culture for his critical essay, “Lines of Thought: The Cartoon as a Phenomenological Object and a Philosophical Tool.”

Tommy’s creative work uses simplicity as a vehicle for depth. Through drawing and writing, he processes the human condition in all its highs, lows, and contradictions. He works across a wide range of visual and story-based projects, including analog and digital illustration, comics, humor writing, murals, and animation.